Poets and Prophets: Plato and Hobbes on the Immaterial Threats to Political Stability

• In Event: Political Theology and Theological Politics

Brief Overview

This paper offers a new interpretation of the unique threats posed by poets and prophets in the pollical thought of Plato and Hobbes and identifies these thinkers’ strategy in dealing with immaterial threats to political stability.

Author

• Avshalom M. Schwartz, Stanford University